Dancing While the Dollar Depreciates

Feels appropriate to drop some remixes to go along with the Reagan era remix—Stephen Miran’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board is just the latest track in a long playlist of dollar devaluation, austerity for the rest of us, and profits for the usual suspects. Still waiting on a proper critique from economists like Michael Roberts or Michael Hudson, but from what I’ve gathered so far, the “Miran Doctrine” is collapse choreography: pain for the working class, leverage for capital.

Marx saw this coming: the ruling class conjures up the ghosts of past ideologies to mask present-day extraction.

So here’s this DJ set of Madonna remixes—because I need an escape, and maybe you do too.

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Dubya 2.0: Mission Pending

Once Dubya 2.0 strikes the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant and fails to destroy it, will he too zip into a flight suit, land on a carrier, and declare “Mission Accomplished” before the dust has even settled? Perhaps this time, the banner will read “Mission: Pending,” fluttering above a mountain that swallowed a 30,000-pound bunker buster without flinching. And if history rhymes, we may soon be treated to another round of performative triumph, complete with choreographed optics and a conveniently vague definition of success.

Some scripts never get rewritten. They just cast new leads.